The 2014 Open Engagement conference is co-presented by the Queens Museum and A Blade of Grass, and takes place at the Queens Museum, New York Hall of Science, the Queens Theater, Immigrant Movement International, and various locations around New York.

Registration is closed; if you did not get a ticket and would like to attend, they can put your name on a waiting list. Email openengagement@gmail.com with “Wait List” as the subject.

Since 1974, New York City-based organization Creative Time has collaborated with artists and others to present ambitious art projects in public spaces. This event celebrates the upcoming publication, Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets, Ukeles’ first monograph to date. The event will feature an informal discussion between Ukeles and Kari Conte, and a screening of Snow Workers Ballet from 2012. The publication focuses on the artist’s ballet works, and their proposals and realizations in the artist’s words. These large-scale collaborative performances involved workers, trucks and barges and took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, Echigo-Tsumari, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam. This richly illustrated publication includes an interview with Shannon Jackson and Tom Finkelpearl, is edited and contains an essay by Kari Conte and is co-published by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Krist Gruijthuijsen, in collaboration with Arnolfini and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Pre-registration is required. Registration is now closed.

Closing Keynote Presentation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Queens Museum Atrium

Sunday, May 18, 2014 from 7:30pm-9:00pm

From the program:

"Mierle Laderman Ukeles is a defining artist in the history of performance, feminist, and socially engaged art and has been the official artist in residence with New York City's Department of Sanitation for over three decades. Her work models possibilities of how an artist can create long-term, sustainable alternative contexts within which to situate and create their work."

artnet Artist Breakfasts: Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Join ArtTable for artnet Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists hosted in partnership with artnet. This month's Artist Breakfast features artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles in conversation with curator Kari Conte on the artists' forthcoming monograph Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets. The publication focuses on the artist’s ballet works, and their proposals and realizations in the artist’s words. These large-scale collaborative performances involved workers, trucks and barges and took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, Echigo-Tsumari, New York, Pittsburgh, and Rotterdam. This richly illustrated publication includes an interview with Shannon Jackson and Tom Finkelpearl, is edited and contains an essay by Kari Conte and is co-published by Sternberg Press, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Grazer Kunstverein and Krist Gruijthuijsen, in collaboration with Arnolfini and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.